Minority Report Color Correction/Cinematography??

y2kwizard · Post by **y2kwizard** » Sat Dec 28, 2002 11:45 pm

Hello all.

I was just watching Minority Report, and I noticed that it has extremely awesome color correction. It's absolutely amazing. I'm sure there are other movies with this sort of thing, but Minority Report immediately came to mind.

My question is this: how high end are the tools that did the color correction in Minority Report? Could one do it with Premiere? After Effects? Final Cut Pro? Or was it a much higher-end tool that did this?

And, if anyone has the time, could you explain how you'd go about such a deed as copying Minority Report's color correction? Thanks a lot!

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Sat Dec 28, 2002 11:52 pm

What exactly do you mean?

Does the DVD calibrate itself to your TV or something ?

Does the DVD look better then the FILM ?

^_^

~klinky

y2kwizard · Post by **y2kwizard** » Sat Dec 28, 2002 11:56 pm

I'm terribly sorry. I didn't state the question clearly.

I am really asking if the actual cinematography could be recreated with off-the-shelf software such as After Effects or Premiere or FCP. The actual combination of filters and color correction to create the cool-looking effects the movie gives.

For instance, blue, white, or greenish tints are used constantly throughout the film. BLurs and glows enhance the effect. I'm wondering about the cinematography itself. It has nothing to do with hardware or software...

Sorry for being unclear. This is probably STILL unclear, but I hope I give you a better idea of my question. BAH! I hate not being articulate!

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Sun Dec 29, 2002 12:00 am

I am going to take a stab in suggesting REALLY GOOD CAMERAS x_X & lighting specialist...

~klinky

trythil · Post by **trythil** » Sun Dec 29, 2002 12:02 am

There's no reason why you _couldn't_ do such a thing with off-the-shelf software. Nearly any video editing package worth its salt has something to do color correction with. Combined with blending modes (e.g. normal, additive, subtractive, etc) you can get some very interesting effects.

The hard part is getting the effect just right.

Insofar as color tweaking goes, the package I use does both HSV (hue, saturation, value) tweaks, RGB tweaks, and direct tweaking of luma + chroma values via a YUV filter (which, obviously, works best with YUV footage...) I'm using all of those extensively for my current project.

I'm sure that other packages do the same, and probably more.

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Sun Dec 29, 2002 12:23 am

Just keep in mind that a $500 DV camera is never going to look as good as a ten thousand dollar film camera ^_^

^_^

~klinky

y2kwizard · Post by **y2kwizard** » Sun Dec 29, 2002 12:40 am

trythil wrote:Insofar as color tweaking goes, the package I use does both HSV (hue, saturation, value) tweaks, RGB tweaks, and direct tweaking of luma + chroma values via a YUV filter (which, obviously, works best with YUV footage...) I'm using all of those extensively for my current project.

Just out of curiosity, which package do you use?

Klinky wrote:Just keep in mind that a $500 DV camera is never going to look as good as a ten thousand dollar film camera ^_^

Oh, yeah, I've known this for a while. My camera looks like crap compared to others. I was just wondering if you could use off the shelf software with a ten thousand dollar camera, in theory, to make approximately the same effects. And, yes, I'm sure that if you have the budget for a 10,000 dollar film camera, you're going to have the money for a full-blown professional suite. But I was just wondering in theory how good the off-the-shelf stuff is.

I'm using AE and Premiere right now, by the way.

NicholasDWolfwood · Post by **NicholasDWolfwood** » Sun Dec 29, 2002 12:45 am

It's most likely one of the programs made by Heroine Virtual Ltd., a software company that makes open-source programs for Linux.

(Don't ask, I'm going to be using Linux for all my video editing work minus using my shitty MPEG Trigun files)

y2kwizard · Post by **y2kwizard** » Sun Dec 29, 2002 1:41 am

How does Heroine's stuff compare to Premiere, AE? Anyone have a clue?

Mechaman · Post by **Mechaman** » Sun Dec 29, 2002 2:54 am

My question is this: how high end are the tools that did the color correction in Minority Report?

Er.

This is the sort of question that ends with writing a check larger than most people's college educations.

The closest you can get with prosumer software is probably Combustion2 or Film Gimp.

Off-the-shelf studio-level tools are usually Inferno, Flint, and others. Generally running on Avid or SGI hardware.

Heroine claims that Cinelerra supports 8, 10, and 16-bit YUV(Film Gimp does, which is what you need to be able to do film-level support--anything less is not even remotely considered). I've not seen anything that really matches discreet's keying/color abilities yet.